http://www.scottmccloud.com/
Granted Scott McCloud is a comic book guy, but I really recommend reading his book Understanding Comics The amount of knowledge you can gain about story telling from this book is exceptional... a story is always a pretty nice thing to have in games. Making Comics is also a great book.

The main thing is you are going to need to learn an applicable skill(i.e. programming, art, writing) other than just having great ideas for games. Most people who are proficient in programming are creative intelligent people and usually have plenty of ideas of their own. But they may not be very good writers or artists, so they might need help doing these things.

Maybe ask yourself this question: are you more interested in designing characters and worlds? or are you more interested in the game play of a game?
And if you want to be involved in every aspect of the process then you need to learn all of these skill or find some good friends who want to help out (I prefer people who I can talk to face to face, but online friends might also work)